I stand corrected.
Doesn't mean schools actually do it, though.
Think I'll leave it there.
Hello Crowan,
I;m sorry, I thought you meant you didn't know the origins of why we celebrate festivals! You're a shaman - how daft is that, for me forgetting that! :p
Grave goods - hmmm - I like to think my mum and dad will get pleasure in the afterlife from the photos, flowers and letters that we placed inside their coffins. I know they physically rot in time, as the bodies rot, but I hope their spirits know that our loving gifts are always with them. Guess I am a pagan at heart!
Patsy.
xxx
Grave goods - hmmm - I like to think my mum and dad will get pleasure in the afterlife from the photos, flowers and letters that we placed inside their coffins. I know they physically rot in time, as the bodies rot, but I hope their spirits know that our loving gifts are always with them. Guess I am a pagan at heart!
Mum never cared what she looked like and was tired of life for her last decade or so. We didn’t really want to weigh her down with stuff.
Dad, however, had multiple interests and always cared about looking nice. He was buried in his best suit. We put in his pockets his penknife and a handkerchief (not that we thought he’d need it, but he always liked to have one.), and into the coffin with him, his binoculars and a notebook and pen. We thought about a bird identification book, but who knows what birds he’ll see in the Land of the Dead?
Just a warning about photos and letters – if put in with the intention of ensuring ‘that a bit of me is always with you’ – I’ve known people lose soul that way, and it can weigh the deceased down so much that they don’t make it to the Land of the Dead.